How many of us here use frame saw?

[CajunRider]

I grew up using frame saws as my primary saw for most everyting. How many of us here use frame saw?

Funny dat I don't even have one frame saw now, me tink it's time to remedy dat right quick. Any body got broken pieces of band saw blade and wanna donate to poor Rider?

[HotFlash]

Funny you should ask . . . LOML and I were just talking last night about how, from the mid-1800's or so, the Disston-type handsaw pretty much replaced the frame saw in the US and the UK. The frame saw remained the woodworkers tool of choice in Europe and other parts of the world.

I've seen the occasional frame saw at yard sales or on e-bay, but I don't know a whole lot about them. I have seen plans for building them, but I've never used one.

How do they compare with the Disston-type hand saws? I think it would be kind of neat to add one to my tool arsenal, but I really know next to nothing about them.

Erin


"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

[Bob Smalser]

Just look below at the article on making them.

[HotFlash]

Below where?

:) :) :)


"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

[Bob Smalser]

http://www.woodworking.com/dcforum/DCForumID15/79.html


I thnk that qualifies as a frame saw:

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/5305809/68747894.jpg

So do the other half dozen I use regularly:

http://www.woodcentral.com/cgi-bin/readarticle.pl?dir=handtools&file=articles_290.shtml




“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin.

[HotFlash]

Ahh . . . that article - sorry, didn't mean to be dense, just wasn't making the connection. Your work is really an inspiration - I think I may need to get real brave and try my had at some simple shop-made tools. I expect they'll be a tad crude next to yours, but we all have to start somewhere. :)

Erin


"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

[Bob Smalser]

None of any of that is a big deal, Erin...dunno why anybody fusses over it.

You just have to give it a try....that little coping saw is a good, inexdpensive place to begin.